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...insect's life cycle is also an asset to its survival. Many insects are completely metamorphic, passing from egg through larval, pupal and sometimes suspended stages before developing into full-fledged adults that can then mate and start the process all over again. This enables them to take advantage of a wide variety of food supplies. Insect fecundity is frightening. Many species lay hundreds or thousands of eggs after each mating. Some pass through their entire life cycles, from egg to adult, in a matter of days or weeks, producing dozens of generations a season. This gives them an enormous...
...called Altosid SR-10, which is chemically similar to the juvenile hormone secreted by insects during an early stage of development. Approved for use against floodwater mosquitoes only, the compound prevents harmless juveniles from maturing into annoying adults. Mosquitoes exposed to the chemical are trapped and die in their larval or pupal stages. William Robbins, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's research
...texture of time" section of Ada, perhaps even from the specific question asked there. "Has there ever been a 'primitive' form of Time in which, say, the Past was not yet clearly differentiated from the Present, so that past shadows and shapes showed through the still soft long, larval...
...other discovery was essentially an accident. Williams' group found that a European bug would grow fairly well in the Bio Labs up until the last larval stage. Then instead of becoming an adult, it would become a giant larva and eventually die without reproducing...
Once anti-hoormone is developed, insects treated with the substance will skip their normal larval development and become miniature adults soon after hatching. Presumably the insects would be sterile, but "at any rate it makes the insect menace smaller," Williams said...